Last season, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers had a bit of an up-and-down coverage unit. Brent Grimes was awesome and had one of the best seasons of his career, but Vernon Hargreaves was inconsistent at best, and the Bucs’ safeties struggled until Keith Tandy consistently got on the field at the end of the season.
So Pro Football Focus ranked the current unit, which added J.J. Wilcox and second-round pick Justin Evans at safety, 15th in the NFL and that sounds about right.
At age 33, Brent Grimes finished 2016 with the highest overall grade of his career at 90.